University of Tsukuba, Shimoda Marine Research Center NAKANO Lab (Evolutionary Developmental Biology)  If you have information concerning Xenoturbella or Placozoa in Japan, or would like to collect them in Japan, please contact us! Our lab is focused in the diversity of marine invertebrate development, evolution of metazoan development patterns, and body plan evolution in deuterostomes. We study the evolution and development of several non-model animals, such as Placozoa, Xenoturbella, and crinoids. For detailed information, please read the research projects page. NEWS February 9th, 2021: Exhibition displaying results from the JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Surveys is held. Dates: February 9th to August 31st, 2021 November 30th, 2020: Our paper on a new species of nemerteans collected from the Izu coast was published. October 8th, 2020: Our paper on mitochondrial genome evolution of placozoans was released in Genome Bio. Evol. as an Advance article. September 29-30th, 2020: Nakano gave an online intensive course at Hokkaido University. Special Lecture in Biology I 'Evolutionary zoology with non-model organisms' September 5th, 2020: Participated in the 91st Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Hayashi and Nakano each made poster presentations online. August 15th, 2020: An article (in Japanese) on crinoid development was published in the journal 'Kaiyo to Seibutsu'. May 6th, 2020: Two chapters were published in 'Japanese Marine Life: A Practical Training Guide in Marine Biology'. April 1st, 2020: Updated the Members page. March 16th, 2020: An article (in Japanese) about our research was released online at 'KAKENHI topics'. January 15th, 2020: Our bulletin paper (in Japanese) was released online. January 6th, 2020: One new member joined our lab! November 30th, 2019: Nakano gave a talk on Xenoturbella at the Izu Peninsula Geopark Geo-cafe. November 29th, 2019: Nakano gave a talk on the JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Surveys at the 6th JAMBIO Forum. Noto Marine Laboratory, Kanazawa University. October 11th, 2019: A book chapter by Nakano, 'Development of Xenoturbellida' was published. Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Kyoto University. September 18th, 2019: Nakano gave a seminar at the 8 Universities Joint Marine Course held at Mukaishima Marine Biological Laboratory, Hiroshima University. September 12-14th, 2019: Participated in the 90th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan: Nakano gave a talk at symposium S1 'Major transitions in animal evolution': 「Xenoturbella and the origin of bilateral symmetry」 Nakano organized a symposium S16: 'Marine Invertebrates -Gold Mine of the Information on Life Sciences VI-' Takatani and Asai each made oral presentations. Miyazawa gave a talk at symposium S16. August 7th, 2019: Our paper on applying microCT on marine invertebrates was published in J. Vis. Exp. July 21st, 2019: Nakano gave a talk at the 2019 Zoological Society of Japan Kanto Branch Open Lectures. July 18th, 2019: Nakano gave a Keynote Lecture at the Shinkishi Hatai International Marine Biology Course 2019. June 19th, 2019: Nakano was one of the contributors in the newly published ZukanNEO Aquatic Organisms. June 3rd, 2019: Our paper on the phylogenetic position of Xenacoelomorpha was published in Current Biology. May 8-10th, 2019: Participated in the 20th JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Survey held at SMRC. April 1st, 2019: One new member joined our lab! March 26th, 2019: Nakano gave a lecture at the GTR/IGER Seminar at Nagoya University. March 16th, 2019: Nakano gave a lecture at the 4th Izu Peninsula Geopark Academic Research Presentation Meeting. March 9th, 2019: Takatani and Asai made presentations at the 71st Annual Meeting of the ZSJ Kanto Branch. Asai was awarded the 'Best Poster Award'. Misaki Marine Biological Station, the University of Tokyo. February 4th, 2019: Our paper on an orthonectid parasitizing Xenoturbella was published in The Biological Bulletin. January 8-27th, 2019: A specimen of X. japonica was on display at the National Museum of Nature and Science. January 12th, 2019: Nakano gave an invited talk at the Union of the Japanese Societies for Systematic Biology December 15th, 2018: Nakano gave an talk at the SMRC Open Day 'Placozoa: animals without nerves or muscles'. December 8th, 2018: Nakano gave an invited talk at the Sugashima Marine Biological Laboratory, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University Symposium. September 30th, 2018: 'Encyclopedia of Zoology' a book edited by the Zoological Society of Japan, was published. Nakano wrote three chapters in the book (The book is in Japanese). June 6th, 2018: Nakano was awarded the Research Grant of the Izu Peninsula UNESCO Global Geopark. May 1st, 2018: Miyazawa became a project researcher at the National Institute of Genetics. April 1st, 2018: One new member joined our lab! March 28th, 2018: Article on Japanese Xenoturbella appeared in the academist Journal website. Misaki Marine Biological Station, the University of Tokyo. January 30th, 2018: Our paper on the diversity of Japanese placozoans was published in Ecology & Evolution. "Multiple surveys employing a new sample-processing protocol reveal the genetic diversity of placozoans in Japan" January 22nd, 2018: Article on Japanese Xenoturbella appeared in the University of Tsukuba newspaper. January 11th, 2018: Article on Japanese Xenoturbella appeared in The Mainichi newspaper. December 28th, 2017: Article on Japanese Xenoturbella appeared in Tsukuba Science News. December 19th, 2017: Articles on Japanese Xenoturbella appeared in newspapers Izu Shimbun and Ibaraki Shimbun. December 18th, 2017: Our paper on Japanese Xenoturbella was published in BMC Evolutionary Biology. Ushimado Marine Institute, Okayama University. November 21-22nd, 2017: Participated in the 14th JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Survey held at Tateyama Station, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology. October 25th-26th, 2017: All lab members participated in the 13th JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Survey. September 21-23rd, 2017: At the 88th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan, Nakano organized a symposium: 「Marine Invertebrates -Gold Mine of the Information on Life Sciences V-」 Nakano gave a talk at a symposium: 「Discovery of Xenoturbella in Japan」 Takatani gave a talk entitled: 「Positional identity of the regenerating gut in the sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus」 June 13th- September 3rd, 2017 Exhibition displaying results from the JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Surveys is held at the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo. June 6th, 2017: A paper on the collaborative work with Dr. Kakui, Hokkaido University, was published. "Habitat of a tanaidacean Apseudes nipponicus Shiino, 1937" May 28th-June 3rd, 2017: Together with collaborators, Nakano collected Xenoturbella in Sweden. April 1st, 2017: Two new members joined our lab! March 27th, 2017: Bam, a former member of our lab, made a presentation at the March 20th, 2017: Miyazawa made a presentation at the 69th Annual Meeting of the ZSJ Kanto Branch. Nakano was a member of the organizing committee for the meeting. March 6th, 2017: Nakano gave a talk at the 2nd University of Tsukuba-KEK collaborative seminar series ''Functions and shapes of life", with the title 'Mysteries of the marine placozoan lysozyme' February 15-16th, 2017: Participated in the 12th JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Survey. November 14-16, 2016: At 22nd International Congress of Zoology & 87th meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan Nakano organized a symposium: 「Primordial Features of the Centralized Nervous System」 Nakano gave a talk at the symposium 「Placozoa: a free-living animal without nerve cells」 November 1st, 2016: Bam became an assistant professor at Faculty of Medicine, Yamanashi University. October 11-14th, 2016: Participated in the 11th JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Survey. September 21st, 2016: Nakano gave a talk at the 3rd JAMBIO International Symposium. September 8th, 2016: Nakano gave a seminar at the 8 Universities Joint Marine Course held at Mukaishima Marine Biological Laboratory, Hiroshima University. August 28th-September 5th, 2016: Together with collaborators, Nakano collected Xenoturbella in Sweden. August 26th, 2016: Miyazawa presented his results at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan. 'Evolution of the Placozoan Mitochondrial Genome' June 28th, 2016: We provided some pictures in the book 'Gakken Zukan LIVE Aquatic Organisms'. May 26th, 2016: Nakano was one of the translation supervisors in the recently published May 22nd, 2016: An article (in Japanese) written by Nakano on marine invertebrate larvae March 22nd, 2016: Nakano gave a presentation on the results of the JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Survey March 18th, 2016: Nakano gave a public lecture on placozoans at the marine course held by Shimoda city. February 17-18th, 2016: Participated in the 9th JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Survey. January 27th, 2016: Nakano was one of the supervisors in the recently published Chronological Scientific Tables 2016. December 11th, 2015: We provided some of the crinoid pictures in the recently published book, November 12-13th, 2015: Participated in the 8th JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Survey. November 8th, 2015: Bam presented his results at the below symposium and was awarded the Student Poster Award. October 26-28th, 2015: Bam presented his results at the 67th Society for Biotechnology Japan Annual Meeting. October 18-26th, 2015: Together with collaborators, Nakano collected Xenoturbella in Sweden. September 18th, 2015: Nakano was awarded the ZSJ Young Scientists Award from the Zoological Society of Japan. September 17-19th, 2015: At the 86th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan, Nakano organized a symposium: 「Marine Invertebrates -Gold Mine of the Information on Life Sciences III- JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Surveys Special」 Nakano gave a talk at the symposium 「Japanese Association for Marine Biology and JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Surveys」 September 20th, 2015: An article (in Japanese) written by Nakano on placozoans appeared in Izu-Shinbun newspaper. August 24th, 2015: An article on JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Survey appeared in JAMBIO News Letter. July 24th, 2015: Review on Xenoturbella was published in Zoological Letters. June 30th, 2015: Movies of Xenoturbella Nakano provided was used in a TV program. June 24-25th, 2015: Participated in the 7th JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Survey. May 20th, 2015: Paper on the JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Survey was published on Regional Studies in Marine Science. This paper was featured on the University of Tsukuba webpage "RESEARCH". May 18th, 2015: Nakano became an Editorial Board member for Scientific Reports. May 13-14th, 2015: The 7th JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Survey was canceled due to an approaching typhoon. March 30th, 2015: An article (in Japanese) written by Nakano on placozoans appeared on Umiushi-Tsushin. February 12-13th, 2015: Participated in the 6th JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Survey. February 10th, 2015: A Japanese book for kids Nakano helped was published. February 1st, 2015: Nakano became an associate professor. January 31st, 2015: Paper on ciliary band transition in the crinoid Metacrinus rotundus published in Acta Zoologica. January 19-20th, 2015: Participated in the 5th JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Survey. January 18th, 2015: An article (in Japanese) written by Nakano on crinoids appeared on Izu-Shinbun newspaper. December 31st, 2014: Article about our research on placozoans appeared in JAMBIO News Letter. December 8-12th, 2014: Nakano gave a talk at the OIST Winter Course OWECS2014. December 4-5th, 2014: Participated in the 2nd JAMBIO International Symposium. December 2-3rd, 2014: Nakano gave a talk at The 30th International Symposium in conjunction with Award of the International Prize for Biology November 26th, 2014: Participated in the 4th JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Survey. October 2nd, 2014: Article on placozoans written by Nakano appeared in the journal 'Kagaku', Iwanami-Shoten. September 29th, 2014: At the Tsukuba Global Science Week 2014, Aging Sciences Session, Nakano gave a talk 「Strange and simple placozoans- ‘biologically immortal’ animals?」. September 11-13th, 2014: At the 85th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan, Nakano organized a symposium: 「Marine Invertebrates -Gold Mine of the Information on Life Sciences II-」 Nakano gave a talk at a symposium「Overlooked zoology: less than a few millimeters III」 entitled「Placozoa- Free-living animals without nerve cells or muscle cells」 Bam gave a talk entitled「Exploring glycosidases in Placozoa」 August 1st, 2014: Hideyuki Miyazawa joined the lab as a post-doctoral researcher. July 9th, 2014: Article about the Japanese placozoan paper appeared in the JST web site Science Portal. June 26th, 2014: Article about the Japanese placozoan paper appeared in June 26th morning Asahi-shinbun newspaper. June 19th, 2014: Paper on Japanese placozoans was published on Scientific Reports. This paper was featured on the University of Tsukuba webpage "RESEARCH". June 19th, 2014: Nakano was awarded the Young Staffs' Special Incentive Award from the University of Tsukuba. June 5th, 2014: Nakano gave an invited presentation titled 'Establishing an Experimental System for Japanese Placozoans' at the Directors' Meeting of the Japanese National Marine and Inland Water Stations Mini-symposium. May 1st, 2014: Participated in the 3rd JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Survey. April 15th, 2014: Nakano was awarded the Young Scientists' Prize of the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, and Technology (MEXT). April 7th, 2014: An article (in Japanese) written by Nakano appeared in University of Tsukuba Newspaper. April 1st, 2014: Two new members joined the lab! February 19-20th, 2014: Participated in the 2nd JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Survey. January 23-24th, 2014: Participated in the 1st JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Survey. October 4th, 2013: An article about our research appears in the book 'University of Tsukuba by AERA MOOK'. September 26th, 2013: We organized a symposium at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Nakano gave a talk at the seminar: 「Evolution and Origin of Marine Invertebrate Larvae」 September 24th, 2013: You can see pictures of our crinoid sea lilies in lab in this blog article. August 29th, 2013: Received the Young Scientist Initiative Award from the Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan. June 1, 2013: Article about our research on Xenoturbella appeared in JAMBIO News Letter. May 17th, 2013: Our research was featured on the University of Tsukuba webpage "TSUKUBA FUTURE". A photo was also shown on the University of Tsukuba top page. February-April, 2013: Articles about our Xenoturbella paper appeared in a number of Japanese newspapers. Our paper has also received media attention in other countries as well, such as Swedish National TV broadcaster SVT, The Huffington Post, etc. February 26, 2013: Our paper on Xenoturbella development was published on Nature Communications. February 25-26, 2013: Presentation at the 1st JAMBIO International Symposium 「Development of Xenoturbella and the evolution of metazoan larvae」 |
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